posted by Wayne Shih @ http://acts18910.blogspot.com/
Tonight ABC is airing Barbara Walters Special Heaven -- Where Is It? How Do We Get There? Here are a few quotes from the different views of heaven:
Catholic
"I always think of heaven as being a place where we won't have any troubles anymore. Heaven is a place where there will be peace and tranquility." - Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, former archbishop of Washington, D.C.
Buddhist
"[Heaven] is [the] best place to further develop the spiritual practice … for Buddhists the final goal is not just to reach there, but to become Buddha. [It's] not the end." - Dalai Lama
Muslim
"The real life is the next life … and based upon how we live this life, it determines where we shall be in the next. We are told we will be in comfortable homes, reclining on silk couches … so we're given the delights of sex, the delights of wine, the delights of food with all of their positive things without their negative aspects." - Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, founder of the American Society for Muslim Advancement
Jew
"For the past 2,000 years, most Jews believed that at death, the body and the soul separate, the body is interred and disintegrates in the earth, the soul goes off to be with God.... "At the end of days, God will resurrect bodies, will reunite body and soul, and the individual will come before God to account for his or her life." - Rabbi Neil Gillman, a professor of philosophy at New York's Jewish Theological Seminary
Atheist
"Heaven doesn't exist, hell doesn't exist. We weren't alive before we were born and we're not going to exist after we die. I'm not happy about the fact that that's the end of life, but I can accept that and make my life more fulfilling now, because this is the only chance I have." - Ellen Johnson, president of the American Atheists.
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